Upgrading P6 Professional

Use the P6 Professional Installation Wizard to upgrade P6 Professional. For an upgrade, the P6 Professional Installation Wizard does the following:

Replaces the any previous versions of P6 Professional (release 15 or version 7, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, or 8.4) with P6 Professional 16 R1.
Upgrades the SQLite database, if needed.
Upgrades the Oracle XE database or Microsoft SQL Server 2005 SP3 database to the current schema, if needed.
Optionally migrates an Oracle XE database or Microsoft SQL Server 2005 SP3 database to a SQLite database. SQLite is the default database type for a P6 Professional standalone database.
Notes:
- Versions earlier than P6 Professional 7.0 are no longer supported and cannot be upgraded.
- P6 Professional, P6 Professional SDK, and Job Services will be updated.
- If you are migrating an Oracle XE database or a Microsoft SQL Server 2005 SP3 database to a SQLite database, you must first upgrade Oracle XE database or a Microsoft SQL Server 2005 SP3 database to the current schema.
- The default location of the migrated database is the Documents folder; P6Standalone.db is the default filename.
- Setup automatically configures the alias PMDB in the migrated SQLite database file.
- Summary-Only projects are not supported in P6 Professional starting with version 8.1. During the P6 Professional database upgrade, existing Summary-Only projects are converted to standard projects, but will lose all summary data. You can import the summary project from Microsoft Project into the converted blank project, and then summarize the data. See the P6 Professional Help.

Last Published Wednesday, May 25, 2016